Most students who say they're bad at maths aren't.
They're behind, they've been embarrassed once too often, and they've quietly decided it isn't for them. I'm a maths teacher of eleven years — five of them spent with exactly those students — and the work starts by taking the fear out of it. Calmly, and without rushing anybody. Year 5 to GCSE, across Birmingham, Solihull and Redditch, or anywhere in the country online.
No obligation. We talk about what's actually going wrong, and I tell you straight whether I can help.
Three kinds of student, and I'm honest about which
I'm not the tutor for a Year 11 chasing a grade 9 — there are people who do that better than me. I'm the one you call when the problem isn't really the maths any more. Nobody here gets rushed, and nobody gets made to feel silly for asking.
Struggling in class
Sitting at the back, copying it down, understanding none of it, and increasingly good at not being asked. Usually there's a gap two or three years further back that nobody's had time to go and find.
Foundation GCSE, Year 10 and 11, and the SATs years before it.
Not in school at all
Excluded, out on medical or mental health grounds, refusing to go in, or being educated at home. Maths is usually the first subject to fall away and the hardest to pick back up alone.
I've spent five years teaching these students in provision. Daytime sessions, online or in person.
Resitting
A grade 3 in November, or a fourth attempt in college, and a growing sense that this is just who they are now.
It usually isn't. It's normally three or four topics and a lot of accumulated dread.
How it works, and what it costs
Sessions are an hour, weekly, same slot each week — the routine matters as much as the maths. We move at your child's pace rather than the curriculum's, and go back as far as we need to without making a thing of it. No contracts, no joining fee, no minimum term: if it isn't working, say so and we'll stop.
One to one, in person
£40 / hourAt your home, across Birmingham, Solihull and Redditch.
One to one, online
£35 / hourAnywhere in the UK. Evenings and weekends.
Saturday small groups
£20 / studentFour students maximum, same year and level. £120 for a six-week block.
Daytime, out of school
£50 / hourSchool-hours teaching for students who aren't attending. Online nationally. Reports provided.
Group blocks are paid upfront; one-to-one is paid session by session or monthly, whichever suits you. Students already with me keep the rate we originally agreed.
I didn't plan to be a maths teacher
My degree was in quantity surveying. I worked at a nightclub. I worked at National Express. I ended up in a classroom almost by accident, and eleven years later I'm still here — which is part of why I get on with students who can't see a straight line from where they are to where they're supposed to be going. I didn't have one either.
Four and a half of those years were in a mainstream secondary school. The five after that were in alternative provision: first a short-stay centre for permanently excluded students, then a school for students with social, emotional and mental health needs.
Those were young people who'd been out of education for months, or thrown out of it, or had quietly given up somewhere around Year 8. A lot of them passed their maths. Some of them passed it well. Not because I explained fractions more cleverly than the last person — because I didn't react when they got it wrong, and eventually they stopped bracing for it.
That's the whole method, really. Find the gap, go back to it without making a thing of it, and be boringly consistent until the panic goes out of it.
Intervene is that work, offered privately. I still teach in provision, and I still tutor every day of the week.
Every review is from a parent
All of them are on the Intervene-Education Facebook page, unedited. The thing almost every one of them mentions first isn't the grade — it's that their child stopped dreading it.
"This is the best maths tutor by far. He has been incredible with supporting my daughter over the last 13 months. My daughter had very little confidence and belief in herself that she would develop in maths, which G completely changed for her. She was at grade 2 and now has her results and achieved a grade 4. My daughter was devastated that her tuition stopped as she enjoyed them."— Nic T., parent · August 2026
"Gee was fantastic with my daughter. She struggled with confidence in maths and began to dread lessons. She had some sessions with Gee and her confidence just grew — she enjoyed the tuition and went from strength to strength. His approach was amazing, and the results speak for themselves."— Kimberley B., parent · July 2026
"Gee offered my son tuition in the 6 weeks prior to his GCSE exam. I was last minute asking for help and my son was struggling and looking unlikely to pass. Gee was so positive and confident he could help, it immediately lifted a weight off both our shoulders. My son instantly felt comfortable, and things he'd struggled to understand at school suddenly made sense within just a few weeks."— Lydia C., parent
"My son hated maths and really struggled with it. G helped him grow his confidence hugely, with an incredibly calm approach and simple effective techniques tailored to his needs. Worth every penny and some. My son called me after his final maths exam to tell me how good he felt it went."— Rhi, parent
"I feel incredibly lucky that Gee taught my son. His ability to make complex concepts so simple is amazing. What sets Gee apart is not only his in-depth knowledge, but his patience, dedication and genuine care for all of his students' successes."— Mandeep K., parent